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abdominal
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adj 1: of or relating to or near the abdomen; "abdominal
muscles"
n 1: the muscles of the abdomen [syn: abdominal, abdominal
muscle, ab]
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aboriginal
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adj 1: of or pertaining to members of the indigenous people of
Australia; "an Aboriginal rite"
2: characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region
from the beginning; "native Americans"; "the aboriginal
peoples of Australia" [syn: native, aboriginal] [ant:
nonnative]
3: having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original
stage or state; "aboriginal forests"; "primal eras before the
appearance of life on earth"; "the forest primeval";
"primordial matter"; "primordial forms of life" [syn:
aboriginal, primal, primeval, primaeval,
primordial]
n 1: a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in
Australia when Europeans arrived [syn: Aborigine, Abo,
Aboriginal, native Australian, Australian Aborigine]
2: an indigenous person who was born in a particular place; "the
art of the natives of the northwest coast"; "the Canadian
government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal
college students" [syn: native, indigen, indigene,
aborigine, aboriginal]
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additional
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adj 1: further or added; "called for additional troops"; "need
extra help"; "an extra pair of shoes" [syn: extra,
additional]
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annul
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v 1: declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea"
[syn: invalidate, annul, quash, void, avoid,
nullify] [ant: formalise, formalize, validate]
2: cancel officially; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an
embargo"; "vacate a death sentence" [syn: revoke, annul,
lift, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn,
rescind, vacate]
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arsenal
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n 1: all the weapons and equipment that a country has [syn:
arsenal, armory, armoury]
2: a military structure where arms and ammunition and other
military equipment are stored and training is given in the
use of arms [syn: arsenal, armory, armoury]
3: a place where arms are manufactured [syn: armory,
armoury, arsenal]
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attitudinal
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adj 1: of or relating to attitudes
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cardinal
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adj 1: serving as an essential component; "a cardinal rule";
"the central cause of the problem"; "an example that was
fundamental to the argument"; "computers are fundamental
to modern industrial structure" [syn: cardinal,
central, fundamental, key, primal]
2: being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order;
"cardinal numbers" [ant: ordinal]
n 1: (Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100
prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope
and elect new Popes
2: the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a
quantity but not the order [syn: cardinal number,
cardinal]
3: a variable color averaging a vivid red [syn: cardinal,
carmine]
4: crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red
plumage in the male [syn: cardinal, cardinal grosbeak,
Richmondena Cardinalis, Cardinalis cardinalis, redbird]
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communal
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adj 1: for or by a group rather than individuals; "dipping each
his bread into a communal dish of stew"- Paul Roche; "a
communal settlement in which all earnings and food were
shared"; "a group effort"
2: relating to a small administrative district or community;
"communal elections in several European countries"
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conditional
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adj 1: qualified by reservations
2: imposing or depending on or containing a condition;
"conditional acceptance of the terms"; "lent conditional
support"; "the conditional sale will not be complete until
the full purchase price is paid" [ant: unconditional,
unconditioned]
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confessional
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n 1: a booth where a priest sits to hear confessions
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conventional
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adj 1: following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional
wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional
behavior"; "conventional forms of address" [ant:
unconventional]
2: conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of
the world" [syn: conventional, established]
3: (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is
not nuclear energy; "conventional warfare"; "conventional
weapons" [ant: atomic, nuclear]
4: unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives";
"conventional attitudes" [ant: unconventional]
5: represented in simplified or symbolic form [syn:
conventional, formal, schematic]
6: in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from
the past; "a conventional church wedding with the bride in
traditional white"; "the conventional handshake"
7: rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious
greetings did not seem heartfelt" [syn: ceremonious,
conventional]
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coronal
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n 1: flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage
or flowers for ornamental purposes [syn: wreath,
garland, coronal, chaplet, lei]
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correctional
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adj 1: concerned with or providing correction; "a correctional
institution"
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criminal
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adj 1: bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; "a
criminal waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of
violence"; "adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as
for a wife" [syn: condemnable, criminal,
deplorable, reprehensible, vicious]
2: guilty of crime or serious offense; "criminal in the sight of
God and man"
3: involving or being or having the nature of a crime; "a
criminal offense"; "criminal abuse"; "felonious intent" [syn:
criminal, felonious]
n 1: someone who has committed a crime or has been legally
convicted of a crime [syn: criminal, felon, crook,
outlaw, malefactor]
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delusional
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adj 1: suffering from or characterized by delusions
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devotional
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adj 1: relating to worship; "a devotional exercise"
n 1: a short religious service
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diagonal
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adj 1: connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or
any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face;
"a diagonal line across the page"
2: having an oblique or slanted direction [syn: aslant,
aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped,
sloping]
n 1: (geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a
polygon that are not adjacent
2: a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to
a side of the fabric [syn: diagonal, bias]
3: an oblique line of squares of the same color on a
checkerboard; "the bishop moves on the diagonals"
4: (mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running
diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or
running from the upper right to lower left entry
5: a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of
information [syn: solidus, slash, virgule, diagonal,
stroke, separatrix]
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dimensional
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adj 1: of or relating to dimensions
2: having dimension--the quality or character or stature proper
to a person; "never matures as a dimensional character; he is
pasty, bland, faceless"- Norman Cousins
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directional
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adj 1: relating to or indicating directions in space; "a
directional microphone" [ant: omnidirectional]
2: relating to direction toward a (nonspatial) goal; "he tried
to explain the directional trends of modern science"
3: showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction
on; "felt his mother's directing arm around him"; "the
directional role of science on industrial progress" [syn:
directing, directional, directive, guiding]
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disciplinal
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adj 1: designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was
corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal
measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary" [syn:
corrective, disciplinary, disciplinal]
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dismantle
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v 1: tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building
was levelled" [syn: level, raze, rase, dismantle,
tear down, take down, pull down] [ant: erect, put
up, raise, rear, set up]
2: take apart into its constituent pieces [syn: disassemble,
dismantle, take apart, break up, break apart] [ant:
assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack
together]
3: take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper" [syn:
strip, dismantle]
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divisional
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adj 1: of or relating to a military division; "divisional
artillery"
2: serving to divide or marking a division; "the divisional line
between two states"
3: constituting a division or an aliquot part of the basic
monetary unit; "American divisional (fractional) coins
include the dime and the nickel"; "fractional currency is
currency in denominations less than the basic monetary unit"
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doctrinal
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adj 1: relating to or involving or preoccupied with doctrine;
"quibbling over doctrinal minutiae"
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dull
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adj 1: lacking in liveliness or animation; "he was so dull at
parties"; "a dull political campaign"; "a large dull
impassive man"; "dull days with nothing to do"; "how dull
and dreary the world is"; "fell back into one of her dull
moods" [ant: lively]
2: emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow";
"dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky" [ant:
bright]
3: being or made softer or less loud or clear; "the dull boom of
distant breaking waves"; "muffled drums"; "the muffled noises
of the street"; "muted trumpets" [syn: dull, muffled,
muted, softened]
4: so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a
boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening
effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent
but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture
their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long
letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the
tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's
dreams are dreadfully wearisome" [syn: boring, deadening,
dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome,
wearisome]
5: (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted; "dull
greens and blues"
6: not keenly felt; "a dull throbbing"; "dull pain" [ant:
sharp]
7: slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so
dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met
anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning,
at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb
officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either
normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with
the slow students" [syn: dense, dim, dull, dumb,
obtuse, slow]
8: (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or
slow)"; "a sluggish market" [syn: dull, slow, sluggish]
9: not having a sharp edge or point; "the knife was too dull to
be of any use" [ant: sharp]
10: blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; "a dull gaze"; "so
exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa
Cather
11: not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or
against something relatively soft; "the dull thud";
"thudding bullets" [syn: dull, thudding]
12: darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "the sky
was leaden and thick" [syn: dull, leaden]
v 1: make dull in appearance; "Age had dulled the surface"
2: become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or
brightness; "the varnished table top dulled with time"
3: deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping [syn:
muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone down]
4: make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses" [syn:
numb, benumb, blunt, dull]
5: make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge"
[syn: dull, blunt] [ant: sharpen]
6: become less interesting or attractive [syn: pall, dull]
7: make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite
for travel"
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empanel
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v 1: enter into a list of prospective jurors [syn: empanel,
impanel]
2: select from a list; "empanel prospective jurors" [syn:
empanel, impanel, panel]
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flannel
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n 1: a soft light woolen fabric; used for clothing
2: bath linen consisting of a piece of cloth used to wash the
face and body [syn: washcloth, washrag, flannel, face
cloth]
3: (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine
or tweed or white cloth [syn: flannel, gabardine,
tweed, white]
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gull
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n 1: a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
[syn: chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy,
sucker, soft touch, mug]
2: mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short
legs [syn: gull, seagull, sea gull]
v 1: make a fool or dupe of [syn: fool, gull, befool]
2: fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted
everyone"; "You can't fool me!" [syn: gull, dupe,
slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put
one over, put one across]
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inguinal
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adj 1: of or relating to or near the groin
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isochronal
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adj 1: equal in duration or interval; "the oscillations were
isochronal" [syn: isochronal, isochronous]
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marginal
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adj 1: at or constituting a border or edge; "the marginal strip
of beach" [syn: fringy, marginal]
2: of questionable or minimal quality; "borderline grades";
"marginal writing ability" [syn: borderline, marginal]
3: just barely adequate or within a lower limit; "a bare
majority"; "a marginal victory" [syn: bare(a), marginal]
4: producing at a rate that barely covers production costs;
"marginal industries"
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neuronal
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adj 1: of or relating to neurons; "neural network" [syn:
neural, neuronal, neuronic]
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null
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adj 1: lacking any legal or binding force; "null and void" [syn:
null, void]
n 1: a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had
ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had
done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for
naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: nothing,
nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher,
goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo]
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occasional
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adj 1: occurring from time to time; "took an occasional glass of
wine"
2: occurring or appearing at usually irregular intervals;
"episodic in his affections"; "occasional headaches" [syn:
episodic, occasional]
3: occurring from time to time; "casual employment"; "a casual
correspondence with a former teacher"; "an occasional worker"
[syn: casual, occasional]
4: recurring or reappearing from time to time; "periodic
feelings of anxiety" [syn: periodic, occasional]
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original
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adj 1: preceding all others in time or being as first made or
performed; "the original inhabitants of the Americas";
"the book still has its original binding"; "restored the
house to its original condition"; "the original
performance of the opera"; "the original cast";
"retracted his original statement"
2: (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something
intermediary; "his work is based on only original, not
secondary, sources"
3: being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being
as first made or thought of; "a truly original approach";
"with original music"; "an original mind" [ant: unoriginal]
4: not derived or copied or translated from something else; "the
play is original; not an adaptation"; "he kept the original
copy and gave her only a xerox"; "the translation misses much
of the subtlety of the original French"
n 1: an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which
copies can be made [syn: master, master copy,
original]
2: something that serves as a model or a basis for making
copies; "this painting is a copy of the original" [syn:
original, archetype, pilot]
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provisional
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adj 1: under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon;
"probationary employees"; "a provisional government";
"just a tentative schedule" [syn: probationary,
provisional, provisionary, tentative]
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regional
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adj 1: characteristic of a region; "regional flora"
2: related or limited to a particular region; "a regional
dialect"
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urinal
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n 1: a plumbing fixture (usually attached to the wall) used by
men to urinate
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virginal
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adj 1: characteristic of a virgin or virginity; "virginal white
dresses"
2: untouched or undefiled; "nor is there anything more virginal
than the shimmer of young foliage"- L.P.Smith
3: in a state of sexual virginity; "pure and vestal modesty"; "a
spinster or virgin lady"; "men have decreed that their women
must be pure and virginal" [syn: pure, vestal, virgin,
virginal, virtuous]
n 1: a legless rectangular harpsichord; played (usually by
women) in the 16th and 17th centuries [syn: virginal,
pair of virginals]
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impanel
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v 1: enter into a list of prospective jurors [syn: empanel,
impanel]
2: select from a list; "empanel prospective jurors" [syn:
empanel, impanel, panel]
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veronal
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n 1: a barbiturate used as a hypnotic [syn: barbital,
veronal, barbitone, diethylbarbituric acid,
diethylmalonylurea]
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aberrational
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depositional
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disannul
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binational
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mcdanel
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petronel
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collisional
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equational
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